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A blog regarding the thousands of entries in the book The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour 1914-2005 - Volume 1 South Warwickshire by Kenneth Fowler.
First published by Able Publishing.

Here we will list errors that we believe we have found and the details of the Men of WW1 which the researchers at the time could not find. Since publication nearly 20 years ago numerous new records have become available online.

We also found that the book had a tendency to fit the "wrong man into the right hole" using CWGC records when often the man had not been given a CWGC grave but we found his death using local death records.

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Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Alcester

Addition of men to Alcester section (not featured on main memorial) - from Alcester Baptist Church memorial.

A newly acquired picture from the Alcester Baptist Church reveals that the following men are not named on the main war memorial or British Legion memorial inside St Nicholas Church. The Baptist Church memorial takes the form of a new Church Organ bearing a plaque with the names of 10 parishioners of the Church who fell in WW1. See here https://www.swfhs.org.uk/index.php/war-memorial-transcriptions/war-memorial-transcritions-a-d/alcester-wms/alcester-bap-wm A new memorial has been created on
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Warwickshire Roll of Honour - Alcester

Correction to the service record of Private 9978 Walter Harold Blake - 3rd Bn Royal Warwickshire - Alcester War Memorial

The Roll of Honour Book states that Walter did not serve abroad and that he was not entitled to any medals. This is not correct. Walter is named on the Alcester War Memorials Walter Harold Blake - born Walter Harold Hunt in Alcester had previously served in the Army (see newspaper cutting) and was mobilised and his medal card shows that he landed in France on 22 Aug 1914 with the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was awarded the 1914 Star & Clasp, . He died of Cerebro Spinal
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